Word: carmencita
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...modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen and daughter Carmencita (now 19). His most frequent prayer is: "Lord who entrusted Spain to my hand, do not deny me the grace of handing you back a Spain which is truly Catholic...
...Carmencita Franco, only daughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, officially discarded childhood on her 18th birthday, unveiled her Spanish-style beauty (see cut) at a debutante ball in Madrid's El Pardo palace...
...Madrid. He appears at public functions surrounded by an entourage of aides and has a lordly way of refusing to see foreign ambassadors in person. Madrid gossips have long whispered that Franco dreams of founding a dynasty of his own. He might, they murmur, marry off his young daughter, Carmencita, to the Duke of Veragua, scion of a famous bull-raising family and descendant of Christopher Columbus...
Hardened and ambitious, in 1923 he married Carmen Polo, daughter of a wealthy Oviedo merchant, and His Majesty King Alfonso sent a personal representative to the wedding. They have one daughter Carmencita, now 10, who busies herself with well-photographed good works around Burgos. Strange for a Spanish officer, he is said neither to drink nor smoke. Odder still, he is pictured as very much the family man. A typical dictator has no time for, and little interest in, family life...
...Caudillo himself is comfortably established in the Bishop of Salamanca's palace opposite the west front of the Cathedral. Here he lives with his handsome wife Carmen, whom he married eleven years ago while on duty in Oviedo, and his daughter Carmencita, who is two years younger than Britain's Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron...